PBS NewsHour: The placebo effect’s role in healing, explained
for PBS NewsHourPublished: April 11, 2018
I traveled with a film crew to Huatla, Mexico, and Baltimore, Maryland, to understand the intersection of science, faith and healing.
Erik Vance scrutinizes a battle over dolphin rights
for The Open NotebookPublished: November 2011
Reporting from the trenches in the war over dolphin rights, freelance science writer Erik Vance relates the story of Lori Marino and Diana Reiss, dolphin researchers who have spent most of their careers as close colleagues and friends
Just the Towhee of Us
for CaliforniaPublished: Summer 2006
In 2006 I interviewed an expert in back yard love songs. Take a walk in the Bay Area hill s and listen for a very unusual type of duet.
Natural Habitat: Erik Vance
for The Open NotebookPublished: October 2012
To see the slideshow, click here.
In our “Natural Habitat” series, we invite science writers to share their working spaces — offices, spare bedrooms, coffee shops, hammocks — and the accoutrements that help them do their best work. (If you’d like to nominate your office to be featured at Natural Habitat, let …
The human cost of cocaine
for Mornings with Nicole Dyer (Australia)Published: February 2015
Conversation about the cultural costs of cocaine use. Click below or visit the website. Start at 7:40
Story Collider: Is This Biology?
In October 2015, I appeared with Story Collider to talk about porcupines, Satan worshippers, and biology.
Nieman Storyboard: “Scientists are quirky everywhere”
for Nieman StoryboardPublished: December 2015
Biologist-turned-journalist Erik Vance on incorporating science into narrative stories
A Day in the Life of Erik Vance
for The Open NotebookPublished: October 2015
An online resource by science journalists dedicated to science journalism as craft.